Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-12-17
PLENTY CONES.

The Words spoken by the Crow Chief
at the Recent Council At Crow
Agency.
Grow Agency Oorrssconpence: In
his speech at the second coanciI held
there after the fight of Nov. s, Plenty
Cones, the chief, said:
4 will not tell on o lie and shall keep
nothing back. What l say, 1 want you
TO taEesto the Great Father at Washing
ton. 1 was quite q wey off. I did NOS
get here before.the trouble. The man
who made the trouble referring to
Sword Bearer is row dead; buried here.
l want to commence new from now and
be good people. I do not want
to be hungry. want to live.
we'll. ] want no more blood ON
my hands. My people are hungry, too.
I want you to get them more ratlons.
l want y0n TO tell them ct Washington
that alithat has occurred I forget. 7
want now to talk OF other people. I do
not like the agent. He Is an old man.
He talks too much, He is crazy. He
Lhassshadshis hands bloody here. / would
E4kete have him moved and some man
IsentSin his place. / once thought MIR.
Blake was q good man. He struck one
or my men men in the face, and don't
talk straight. He ia Grabbed end
cross AT times. Mr.. Steel is not a good
man. He, too, struck one of the Indians
in tho face. He works for the agent. I
want the interpreter. Stewart to 20 with
his CHIEF, The man right here fpointing
to AMIR. Cummings, of the Indian
farmers, I would like for our agent.
We want MI. Baratow. He has been
here many yeara. He treats the Indian
good, and is al~aya kind TO them. Bare
tow iB chief clerk at the agency, Re
never struck an Indian. He speaks good
to them and is kind TO tkem. I want o
new man, George Washington, to issue
flour to ~myspeople. All over the reser-
gatien shese are csss .sssts
white men on Clarke Fork oyer TO
Pryor creek; they brock into MP gardens,
tear down nay fences, go over my fields.
Quick al the grass comes up again I
want ell these cattle sent away, except
those belonging to hi. Campbell, which
can remain Q n Ialiack's Fork. The
Great Father, chief as Washington has
got q big lot OF money-cattle money
belonging to us. i want some sprlnR
wagons With tops, owe to them. We
want some harnesses thaa wont
break and come all to pieces when
one pulls . load up a bill. We don't
want the white noe to out hay ON the
Indian lands. Give us some hay cutting
machines. Then We will out the hay
and sell it to the government soldiers
instead Of white men doing it ell, Hunt
ZIP ome good harnesses and send as.
White nen have them. We want the
agency storekseper TO sell us goods just
the same as white men buy them-nos
charge two prices He charges too mach,
Let ne out the wood and get the pay fol
ID. Give al the full price. / want two
griat mills; put them anywhere on the
reseryakion. I want TO raise our ownhour
Dne thing the Grows have mos got-a
buggy pillow. such as white men have.
Buy them ont OF the cattle money. /
have got heaps OF land; big reservation
Some OF my people have been allotted
bad land. 4 want them TO 60 where they
get good hay, good wood, 9 good
ground. When We CROSS this Big Horn
we want q pass TO 20 free. Before &c
many white people we're around here the
Sionx Peigans and Oheyennes were al
war With us. Yon have stopped that.
Nov we have NO enemies.